taxonID	type	description	language	source
038B87A5FFF4FFABF2EEFD2FFBC26858.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: — Phragmaspidium corruscans (Rehm 1913: 254) Bat. (1960: 110). Notes: — Phragmaspidium was introduced by Batista (1960) with P. corruscans as the type species and placed in Microthyriaceae. Phragmaspidium manaosense (Henn. 1904: 377) Bat. (1960: 113) and P. viniferae Bat. (1960: 114) have since been added. Wu et al. (2011 a) followed the description of Rehm (1913) and suggested this genus should be placed in Micropeltidaceae. In this study, we examined the type species of Phragmaspidium which lacks a well-developed base, and the upper wall of thyriothecia which comprises cells radiating outwardly in parallel rows from the central raised papillate ostiole. Asci are bitunicate and ascospores are two-celled which are typical of Microthyriaceae. Phragmaspidium differs from other genera in Microthyriaceae in fusiform to clavate ascospores.	en	Wu, Hai-Xia, Tian, Qin, Li, Wen Jing, Hyde, Kevin D. (2014): A reappraisal of Microthyriaceae. Phytotaxa 176 (1): 201-212, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.176.1.20, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.176.1.20
038B87A5FFF4FFABF2EEFD2FFBC26858.taxon	description	Epiphytic on the lower surface of leaves, superficial mycelium lacking. Sexual state: Thyriothecia 27 – 61 µm high × 68 – 124 µm diam, gregarious, circular, or some solitary, slightly raised, brown to black-brown, coriaceous, with prominent and darkened, raised, circular, central ostiole. Upper wall comprising neatly arranged radiating cells and at margin occasionally branched, basal layer poorly developed. Hamathecium comprising asci inclined towards the central ostiole, pseudoparaphyses not observed or lacking. Asci 29 – 40 × 8 – 14.5 µm (x = 35.3 × 10.5 µm, n = 15), 8 - spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate dehiscence not observed, obclavate to cylindrical, apedicellate, lacking an 202 Phytotaxa 176 (1) © 2014 Magnolia Press WU ET AL. obvious ocular chamber. Ascospores 11 – 17 × 3 – 5 µm (x = 13.1 × 3.8 µm, n = 20), overlapping 2 – 3 - seriate, fusiform to clavate, with larger region above central septum, not constricted at the septum, 1 – 4 guttulate, smoothwalled. Asexual state: Unknown.	en	Wu, Hai-Xia, Tian, Qin, Li, Wen Jing, Hyde, Kevin D. (2014): A reappraisal of Microthyriaceae. Phytotaxa 176 (1): 201-212, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.176.1.20, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.176.1.20
038B87A5FFF4FFABF2EEFD2FFBC26858.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined: — PHILIPPINES. Laguna Province: Mount Maquiling, near Los Baños, on leaves of Synedrella nodiflora (Asteraceae), 7 January 1913, H. Rehm (S F 8652, holotype).	en	Wu, Hai-Xia, Tian, Qin, Li, Wen Jing, Hyde, Kevin D. (2014): A reappraisal of Microthyriaceae. Phytotaxa 176 (1): 201-212, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.176.1.20, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.176.1.20
